Measuring health professionals’ perceptions of communication contributing to medication incidents in hospitals - scale development and primary results of weekly perceived communication challenges

Table 3 The factors of MIComHos-S1 with internal consistency values

Factor number	Factor name	Number of items	Cronbach’s alpha †
Factor 1	Medication prescription	20	0.949
Factor 2	Guidelines and reporting	15	0.933
Factor 3	Patients and family members	9	0.922
Factor 4	Implementation of guidelines	6	0.877
Factor 5	Competencies and responsibilities	4	0.828
Factor 6	Attitude and atmosphere	3	0.843
Total	MIComHos-S1	57 items	0.976

† Cronbach’s alpha (α,) is a value of internal consistency of factors and the scale, which are preferred to be above α, 0.70 (Field, 2018, p.823; Greco et al., 2018)

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